Worried that your concrete planter is bad for your plants? The answers and the fix! Whenever I create a tutorial on how to make a concrete planter, the question I am asked most is – “are concrete planters safe for plants?”. The short answer is yes, plants can be safe in concrete planters. But there are things you may need…
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Make an easy concrete DIY self watering planter for orchids, that has a self-wicking system. So what exactly is a self watering planter? Well, there are many different types of DIY self watering planters, but the concrete planter in this tutorial is one that is self-wicking. The reason for having a self watering planter is maybe you aren’t the best…
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Learn how to color concrete crafts. Did you know there are at least nine different mediums and techniques you can use to color your concrete and cement. There are many ways on how to color concrete crafts. Concrete can be colored either integrally into the mix or by applying color after the concrete has cured. Each method has its own…
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Make a DIY driftwood planter by re-purposing from nature. Don’t have driftwood? Substitute with a cedar tree trunk or any old rotted wood. Make a DIY driftwood planter for your succulents. Okay, I bet you are wondering how you grow plants in driftwood. They way plants grow in driftwood is because of the natural grooves and nooks in the driftwood….
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Decorate your fall table with DIY Concrete Pillar Candle Holders After making multitudes of concrete tutorials, it baffles me how a project that has such basic elements and contains steps I’ve done a hundred times- could just inexplicably fail. And this was one of them. Every time I cast the concrete, about an hour into curing —it would crack! I knew it wasn’t…
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DIY hydro dipping concrete planters is a great way to decorate your planters- and AMAZINGLY fun! This neat water immersion technique is a trend that allows for endless creativity. Have you heard about this DIY hydro dipping trend? It’s actually very inexpensive and amazingly simple to do. I had first seen someone dip a guitar into resin using this same…
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Make a spooky cement Jack O’ Lantern for Halloween out of cement and a plastic pumpkin. Halloween, what a fun time of year. And if it’s a year that I don’t have a Halloween costume party to go to, that gives me a little more time and energy to put into decorating. Being a maker of all things cement, I…
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25 Easy Handmade Concrete Gift Ideas! Tutorials for making these unique gifts for the holidays or any occasion. Are you wondering what to make for someone to give as a gift? Are you a concrete enthusiast? Whether it’s for Christmas, a birthday, housewarming or for a hostess gift, these awesome DIY concrete tutorials are amazingly unique gift ideas for what…
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Make DIY concrete pumpkins and add shimmery gold accents to dress up your tablescape or to decorate your porch this fall. Do you even know how easy it is to make DIY concrete pumpkins? If you are wondering what kind of pumpkin mold you use to make pumpkins, the answer is nylon stockings. Yep, that’s right, you can make DIY…
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